Following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in November 1963, an appeal was launched in the United Kingdom to enable British citizens to donate to a fund in the late President’s memory. This money was used to grant a fund to enable British post-graduate students to study at Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and to create a landscaped memorial at Runnymede.
The Runnymede Memorial was opened by the Queen in May 1965 and the first group of Kennedy Scholars went over to Harvard and MIT to begin their courses of study in September 1966.
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The Memorials was opened by the Queen on the May 14, 1965 in the presence of the Prime Minister and many members of the Kennedy family.
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